Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF) faces arrests, court cases, and state violence as they stand up to the dictatorial Turkish state. In a situation of an unending "state of emergency" and civil war, resistance is necessary, and our support is critical!

The anarchist movement in Turkey is a growing, vibrant, and strong
force. Just a few small collectives and papers ten years ago,
anarchists are now organized across Turkey and North Kurdistan. With
their increasing impact and visibility, anarchists have now become a
target of repression as Turkey has slid into war and dictatorship. The
Black Rose Anarchist Federation is asking for your support for their
struggle for freedom in the face of violence and repression!On December 23rd, our comrade Huseyin was sentenced to one year
and three months in prison for being the managing editor of the
anarchist newspaper Meydan, which was banned by state for “terrorist
propaganda”. On May 1st two DAF members were arrested as they marched
in Istanbul. Earlier this year the anarchist cafe Kolektifi 26a in
Istanbul was the target of police harassment. Multiple investigations
against Revolutionary Anarchist Action (Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet –
DAF) and their members remain open, while their comrades are
frequently being arrested at demonstrations and labor actions. Six
anarchists have been killed in ISIS suicide bomb attacks in Turkey
since July 2015.

The repression against the anarchist movement is just one small part
of the war and state terror that is taking place in Turkey and
Kurdistan now. Entire Kurdish cities in Turkey have been decimated and
laid to waste by the government's military sieges. Across the border
in northern Syria, Turkish troops are facing off with Kurdish and
allied militias, and Turkish jets have been bombing Kurdish cities and
military positions - killing American IWW member Michael Israel among
many others. The leadership of the leftist pro-Kurdish People's
Democratic Party (Halklarin Demokratik Partisi – HDP) has been
arrested. HDP co-mayors in Kurdish cities have been arrested and
replaced with appointed rulers. Almost all opposition media, whether
it is leftist, Kurdish, liberal, or even the wrong kind of
conservative Islamist, has been shut down. The country has been ruled
by President Erdogan through a state of emergency decree since the
failed coup in July, meaning that the country is effectively under a
dictatorship. With the recent passing of Erdogan's referendum giving
him even more dictatorial powers, it is clear that the threat of state
terror is increasing.

Black Rose encourages everyone to donate to support DAF because we
believe that the strength and organization of a broad opposition
movement is what can bring peace to the peoples of Turkey and
Kurdistan. Despite the arrests, firings, and killings, resistance
lives as anarchists and thousands of others continue to take to the
streets to challenge the state. Our comrades in Turkey and North
Kurdistan are putting their freedom and lives at risk to bring the
working and oppressed people together to fight for liberation against
Erdogan's murderous dictatorship.

Please donate to DAF to help them fight against repression and win
this struggle!

- Black Rose Anarchist Federation, International Relations Committee

Information about DAF:

DAF is a revolutionary anarchist organization that is organized
in several cities across Turkey and N. Kurdistan. DAF is the largest
anarchist organization in Turkey (although there are certainly other
anarchist groups in Turkey that we also support, like the platformist
group Taçanka in Ankara). They describe their politics
as being rooted in the classical social anarchist movement of Bakunin,
Kropotkin, and especially Malatesta, combined together with the
specific lessons of revolutionary struggle in Turkey and North
Kurdistan. DAF participates in different struggles against oppression
and exploitation through a number of “self-organizations”, such as
Anarsist Kadinlar (women's struggle), Patika Ekoloji Kolektifi
(environmental struggle), and others. There are separate autonomous
collectives that DAF participates in for organizing specific projects,
like the newspaper Meydan, or the Kolektif 26a that manages two
anarchist cafes in Istanbul.

Student movementLise Anarsist Faaliyet is a collective
specifically for anarchist high school students to organize their
struggle with. This is a march that the Lise Anarsist Faaliyet
held against the state testing system:

Environmental movementDAF works within the anarchist Patika Ekologi Kolektifi to support struggles to
defend land and the environment. This video shows a protest against a dam
builders' conference (dams are a key tool that the state uses to
displace and control the rural Kurdish population). This was a march organized against a proposed
nuclear power plant that was to be built on the Black Sea.

What the money will be used for:The funds raised will go to legal expenses for defending cases
against DAF and Meydan, for printing newspapers and propaganda, and
for the general expenses of organizing. The money will be sent to DAF
through the International of Anarchist Federation's ongoing solidarity
campaign for DAF.

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